January 2 - Top 2021

Our Personal top 5 of 2021

Jan-Erik Johansen:
05.FORTRESS: Devil’s wheel – Don’t Spare The Wicked
04.MANIMAL: Burn in hell – Armageddon
03.ACCEPT: Sucks to be you – Too Mean To Die
02.IOTUNN: Laihem’s golden pits – Access All Worlds
01.WICKED SMILE: Wait for the night – Wait For The Night

Oddgeir Gitlestad:
05.ACCEPT: Too mean to die – Too Mean To Die
04.IRON MAIDEN: Stratego – Senjutsu
03.HELLOWEEN: Robot king – Helloween
02.CANNIBAL CORPSE: Inhumane harvest – Violence Unimagined
01.EXODUS: The beatings will continue – Persona Non Grata

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
05.THE CROWN: Let the hammering begin! – Royal Destroyer
04.EINHERJER: West coast groove – North Star
03.IRON MAIDEN: The writing on the wall – Senjutsu
02.VREID: Shadows of Aurora – Wild North West
01.HELLOWEEN: Skyfall – Helloween

Raymond Smith:
05.EXODUS: The years of death and dying – Persona Non Grata
04.HELLOWEEN: Indestructible – Helloween
03.HYPOCRISY: Children of the gray – Worship
02.CRADLE OF FILTH: Necromantic fantasies – Existence Is Futile
01.ACCEPT: Symphony of pain – Too Mean To Die

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Jan-Erik Johansen

December 5

01.PANTERA: Cemetery gates
02.NEW HORIZON: We unite
03.JEFF SCOTT SOTO: Callin’ all girls
04.MAJESTICA: This christmas
05.HELLOWEEN: Sole survivor
06.DEEP PURPLE: Smoke on the water
07.FRANK GILCHRIEST: Rise again
08.KISS: I
09.BLIND GUARDIAN: Deliver us from evil
10.SILVERSTEIN: Coffee mug
11.ACACIA AVENUE: Calling out
12.PICTURE ANN: Anna liked dying places
13.OBSCURA: When stars collide
14.DEATH ANGEL: Absence of light
15.ARCH ENEMY: Dead eyes see no future
16.HELHEIM: Åndsfilosofen
17.ZORNHEYM: Keep the devil away
18.EYES WIDE OPEN: Eraser
19.ACHERON: Seven deadly sins
20.THULCANDRA: Scarred grandeur
21.NIGHTSHADE: Zero matter gravity
22.PESTILENCE: Lost souls

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 24

• 01.TWISTED SISTER: I'll be home for christmas

• 02.WARLOCK: All we are

• 03.AC/DC: You shook me all night long

• 04.HELLOWEEN: mirror mirror

• 05.SAMMY HAGAR: There's only one way to rock

• 06.JORN: Stormcrow

• 07.NIGHTWISH: Wish i had an angel

• 08.TWISTED SISTER: Let it snow

• 09.VANDEN PLAS: Postcard to god

• 10.SINERGY: Gimme gime gimme

• 11.RAMMSTEIN: Rosenrot

• 12.DREAM THEATER: Pull me under

• 13.SUSPERIA: The sun always shine on tv

• 14.TWISTED SISTER: Heavy metal christmas

• 15.FORBIDDEN FOREST: Call of the wild

• 16.ANSUR: Post-apocalyptic wastelands

• 17.INQUESTED: Headless

• 18.ARTCH: Burn down the bridges

• 19.MASTODON: Colony of birchmen

• 20.CANDLEMASS: The edge of heaven

• 21.AT VANCE: Beethoven, 5th sinfonie

• Jørn Livrud

• Knut Ivar Jacobsen

• Raymond Smith

December 3 - Koldbrann

We had a direct phone-interview with Kvass from Koldbrann

• 01. ANTHRAX: Indians

• 02. RIGHTEOUS JAMS: Thought vacation

• 03. THUNDERBOLT: Bad boys

• 04. ANGRA: Course of nature

• 05. DAWN OF SILENCE: Hands of fate

• 06. STAGE DOLLS: Soldier’s gun

• 07. HELLOWEEN: Light the universe

• 08. TWISTED SISTER: Have yourself a merry little Christmas

• 09. METATRONE: The best way

• 10. WHITE WILLOW: Night surf

• 11. PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS: Crooked mile

• 12. KAMELOT: The black halo

• 13. KREATOR: Murder fantasies

• 14. SILENT VANQUISH: The rise of the icon

• 15. ANSUR: Desert messiah

• 16. I: Battalions

• 17. KOLDBRANN: Moribund

• 18. KOLDBRANN: I suveren forakt

• 19. HEARSE: Among the forlorn

• 20. DARK FUNERAL: Thy legions come

• Knut Ivar Jacobsen

• Raymond Smith

• Jørn Livrud

July 2 - Sahg

We had an interview with King from Sahg, we recorded the interview at Inferno Festival 13/04-06

• 01.HELLOWEEN: A little time

• 02.BLOODFLOWERZ: Damaged promises

• 03.EIDOLON: Thousand winthers old

• 04.GUNS N’ROSES: Sweet chid o’mine

• 05.THERAPY?: Into the light

• 06.TYSTNADEN: Münchausen syndrome

• 07.TANKARD: We still drink the old ways

• 08.RUMSFIELD: Die again

• 09.WHITESNAKE: Fool for your loving

• 10.MARK BOALS: Taking control

• 11.SAHG: Boundless demise

• 12.SAHG: The executioner undead

• 13.SAHG: Godless faith

• 14.GORGOROTH: Exit

• 15.CANNIBAL CORPSE: Five nails through the neck

• 16.HELHEIM: The bewitchment

• 17.TORTURE: Ignomnious slaughter

• 18.SPEKTR: The violent stink of twitching terror

• 19.CELTIC FROST: Ain Elohim

• 20.ABORTED: Charted carnal effigy

• Knut Ivar Jacobsen

• Raymond Smith

• Jørn Livrud

• Reporters:

• Raymond Smith

• Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 11

01.SLAYER: War ensemble
02.EMPIRE: The raven ride
03.QUEENSRYCHE: Sign of the times
04.BEAUTIFUL SIN: Lost
05.HELLOWEEN: The departed
06.AIDEN: Pledge resistance
07.KISS: Psycho circus
08.PACTO DE SANGRE: La ley de dios
09.PERSUADER: Slaves of labour
10.WIG WAM: Daredevil heat
11.MAJESTY: Nowhere man
12.ROVER: Shotgun
13.KORN: Got the life
14.SOULFLY: Back to the primitive
15.SERPENT OBSCENE: Sinister faces
16.NOISE FOREST: Maltratment
17.FRAGMENTS OF UNBECOMING: scythe of scarecrow
18.VESEN: Hate
19.SECHT: Secht

Raymond Smith

January 8 - top 2005

Our best albums for the year 2005.

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
01. 05.MORGANA LEFAY: Hollow – Grand Materia
02. 04.ARCH ENEMY: Carry the cross – Doomsday Machine
03. 03.GAMMA RAY: Fight – Majestic
04. 02.CANDLEMASS: Seven silver keys – Candlemass
05. 01.KREATOR: Murder fantasies – Enemy Of God

Raymond Smith
06. 05.OBITUARY: Blindsided – Frozen In Time
07. 04.RAMMSTEIN – Benzin – Rosenrot
08. 03.BOLT THROWER: Granite wall – Those Once Loyal
09. 02.SOILWORK: Stabbing the drama – Stabbing The Drama
10. 01.HELLOWEEN: Mrs. god – Keeper Of The Seven Keys The Legacy

Jørn Livrud:
11. 05.GRIMFIST: Breed apart – 10 steps to hell
12. 04.ARCTURUS: Hibernation sickness complete –Sideshow Symphonies
13. 03.CIRCUS MAXIMUS: Why am I here – The 1’st chapter
14. 02.AUDREY HORNE: Candystore – No Hay Banda
15. 01.OPETH: Beneath the mire – The Ghost Reveries

Cecilie Nilsen
16. 05.VADER: What colour is your blood – The Art Of War
17. 04.SOILWORK: Weapon of vanity – Stabbing The Drama
18. 03.HELLOWEEN: The shade in the shadow - Keeper of The Seven Keys-The Legacy
19. 02.DREAM THEATER: These walls - Octavarium
20. 01.NIDINGR: Righteousness in beauty - Sorrow Infinite And Darkness

The Listeners:
21. RAM-ZET: Left behind as pieces – Intra

December 25 - Helloween

We had an interview with Sascha Gertsner and Dani Loeble from Helloween, Kenneth Brastad did the interview at Rockefeller 01/12-05

01.TWISTED SISTER: I wanna rock
02.EPICA: Quietus
03.SHIRLEY’S TEMPLE: complicated
04.PERSUADER: Escape
05.AXXIS: Dance with the dead
06.EDGUY: Wasted time
07.NIGHTWISH: Higher than hope
08.THE GATHERING: Souvenirs
09.HELLOWEEN: The invisible man
10.HELLOWEEN: Mrs.God
11.HELLOWEEN: The king for a 1000 years
12.ELVENKING: The wanderer
13.SENCIROW: Burn it down
14.THE DEVIANT: Merciless
15.DELIRIUM X TREMENS: Cyberhuman
16.GRIMFIST: Unborn
17.INFENSUS: A lecture in sin
18.ARCH ENEMY My apocalypse
19.VADER: This is the war

Jørn Livrud
Raymond Smith
Reporter:
Kenneth Brastad

December 4 - Primal Fear

Had an interview with Ralf Scheepers from Primal Fear, Knut did the interview at Rockefeller in Oslo.

01: CELTIC FROST: Circle of the tyrants
02: DIO: Dream evil
03: URIAH HEEP: Rainbow Demon
04: LEGS DIAMOND: King of speed
05: THE STORYTELLER: Eyes of the dead
06: TURBONEGER: Are you ready?
07: SPOCK’S BEARD: Surfing down the avalanche
08: DEEP PURPLE: Rapture of the deep
09: PAGANIZE: Chain breaks
10: HELLOWEEN: Shade in the shadow
11: PRIMAL FEAR: Demons and angels
12: PRIMAL FEAR: Rollercoaster
13: PRIMAL FEAR: Seven seals
14: MÖRK GRYNING: The sun
15: NEBULAR MYSTIC: Legions
16: 1349: Pitch Black
17: VILE: Suicide warfare
18: FALKENBACH: Roman land
19. FATAL DEMEANOR: Rotting saints
20: FORGERY: Liar
21.RAGNAROK: The black mass
22.CHAIN COLLECTOR: And then there was none
23.HATE: Razorblade
24.MESHUGGAH: Dehumanization

Raymond Smith
Jørn Livrud
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Reporter:
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 27 - Cutthroat

Endre Moe and Thor Ø from Cutthroat came to our studio for an interview.

01.URIAH HEEP: firefly
02.CLAWFINGER: hate yourself with style
03.DREAM THEATER: these walls
04.STORMCROW: the grievous story of mary grace
05.ZENSOR: nothing
06.DAWNRIDER: guarding the gate
07.HELLFUELED: friend
08.CIRCUS MAXIMUS: sin
09.PRIMAL FEAR: the immortal ones
10.HELLOWEEN: the invisible man
11.DRAGONLORD: until the end
12.HATE: necropolis
13.INFENSUS: from pale skin to fuckin
14.CUTTHROAT: face of death
15.CUTTHROAT: butchering
16.CUTTHROAT: my anger, your suffering
17.DARK FUNERAL: godhate
18.SEVERE TORTURE: unconditional annihilation
19.GOJIRA: the heaviest matter of the universe

Cecilie Nilsen
Raymond Nilsen
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jørn Livrud

November 13 - Regin

Inhuman and Grimme from Regin came to our studio to talk about their first demo.

01. TWISTER SISTER: Burn in hell
02. GUN BARREL: Dear Mr. Devil
03. CHALICE: Shotgun alley
04. DEAD SHERIFF: Barrel of woods
05. HELLOWEEN: Occasion avenue
06. JR EWING: When you’re gone
07. JOHN 5: Damaged
08. WOLFCRY: On the edge
09. PRIMAL FEAR: The immortal ones
10. DESTRUCTION: The alliance of hellhoundz
11. CANDLEMASS: Born in a tank
12. HEVEIN: Bleed the day
13. BURST: Slave emotion
14. REGIN: Dødslengsel
15. REGIN: Mannefall
16. REGIN: Her hvor intet lys finnes
17. IN-QUEST: The comatose quandary
18. OLD MAN’S CHILD: In torment’s orbit
19. MÖRK GRYNING: Into oblivion
20. DIMMU BORGIR: Dødsferd

Jørn Livrud
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 16 - Morgana Lefay

We had an interview with Charles Rytkönen from Morgana Lefay.

01. ANTHRAX: Antisocial
02. MAJESTIC VANGUARD: The great eternity
03. CONFESSOR: The downside
04. CAMAROS: Hell-o-hell
05. HELLOWEEN: Mrs. God
06. MY INSANITY: Cocaine
07. SHAKRA: Take me now
08. ARCTURUS: Evacuation code deciphered
09. MORGANA LEFAY: Hollow
10. MORGANA LEFAY: I roam
11. MORGANA LEFAY: Grand materia
12. LUMSK: Trolltind
13. HATESPHERE: Sickness within
14. BURST: Slave emotion
15. MINDGRINDER: Warhead
16. SUSPERIA: Wild child
17. CHILDREN OF BODOM: In your face
18. MILLENCOLLIN: Twenty two
19. DISKORD: Public static viod
20. GRIMFIST: Breed apart
21. SEARING I: True identity
22. VITAL REMAINS: Dechristianize
23. RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER: Let the fools cheer

Jørn Livrud
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

September 11 - Obituary

We had an interview with Frank Watkins from Obituary recorded at the Hole In The Sky festival.

01. CONCEPTION: Fairy’s dance
02. ILL NINO: What you deserve
03. STONEGARD: Hunter
04. KORN: BBK
05. YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: Revolution
06. BIOMECHANICAL: Existenz
07. SPIRITUAL BEGGARS: Treading water
08. FENCE: Like the other kids
09. DEAR JOHN LETTER: Our responsibility
10. HELLOWEEN: Mrs. God
11. SUBWAY TO SALLY: Sieben
12. SILVERSTEIN: Fist wrapped in blood
13. STRATOVARIUS: Gypsy in me
14. ZENSOR: Nothing
15. MORTIIS: The grudge
16. KISS: Detroit rock city
17. SUSPERIA: Lack of comprehension
18. BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME: Alaska
19. OBITUARY: On the floor
20. OBITUARY: Slow death
21. OBITUARY: Back inside
22. SINCERA: Blinded
23. BEECHER: Function! Function!
24. FEAR FACTORY: 540,000o Fahrenheit
25. HYPOCRISY: Warpath

Raymond Smith
Jørn Livrud
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Reporters:
Vega Barkley
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

May 8 - Meshuggah

Had a phone interview with Mårten Hagström from Meshuggah

01.HELLOWEEN: a little time
02.SCHENKER PATTISON SUMMIT: rock steady
03.TURBONEGER: rock against ass
04.JAMES LABRIE: undecided
05.LUMSK: trolltind
06.AUDREY HORNE: blackhearted vision
07.HEARTBREAK RADIO: rockin’ the night
08.SPITALFIELD: texa$ with a dollar sign
09.CANDLEMASS: Copernicus
10.DARK NOVA: say no more
11.ABSOLUTE STEEL: too good in bed
12.ÅSMEGIN: over ægirs vidstragte sletter
13.CANDIRIA: dead bury the dead
14.OCTAVIA SPERATI: life wasted on the living
15.SHE SAID DESTROY: joy the world
16.MINDGRINDER: pathetic submission
17.MESHUGGAH: autonomy
18.MESHUGGAH: in death is life
19.MESHUGGAH: shed
20.HARM: planet god
21.BLOOD RED THRONE: flesh to destroy
22.KHOLD: med nebb og klør
23.THOU ART LORD: possesed / the legion
24.BLEEDING THROUGH: love lost in a hail of gunfire

Jørn Livrud
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Raymond Smith
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

March 27 - Kreator

We had a interview with Mille from Kreator!

01.HELLOWEEN: a tale that wasn’t right
02.STONEGARD: barricades
03.UNCHAIN: secret garden
04.DIO: don’t talk to strangers
05.LEFT AMONG THE LVING: chapter of sorrow
06.EVERGREY: in the wake of the weary
07.SABATON: primo Victoria
08.LIQUIDO: at the movies
09.DUNGEON: against the wind
10.CIRCLE II CIRCLE: all that remains
11.KREATOR: world anarchy
12.KREATOR: murder fantasies
13.KREATOR: enemy of god
14.DISBELIEF: sick
15.HVERGELMER: skogens rike
16.CRIONICS: armageddons evolution
17.NAPALM DEATH: twist the knife
18.TAAKE: hordalands doedskvad ( part 1)
19.LORDS OF DECADENS: relationship erased
20.SOCIETY 1: it isn’t me
21.RED HARVEST: mastürnation

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Raymond Smith
Jørn Livrud